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The Progression Of Black Media Episode 42 features the award winning multimedia specialist, Via Perkins, who touches on her racial journey explored through her work. What are the importance of media controlled by Black creatives? Does modern media fall short to inflict social change? And what does it mean to be Black from a biracial or multiracial lens? #ViaPerkins

Last weekend was the annual AFROPUNK Festival in Brooklyn with over 70,000 in attendance. A place of Black art and activism, but as the festival grew, more and more people are stating, “Afropunk sold out for white consumption”. This episode we will examine the validity of this statement.

Fu returns for a discussion that comes fresh off of a passionate conversation that took place right before we started recording. Sheens provides some background on how the subject came up and proceeds to challenge Gee’s perspective on the question, should we care about what white people think of us? The topic begins after our Real or Fake surrounding Fabolous and Emily B.

This episode stems from a viral video which took place on Blue Hill Ave in Dorchester MA, that shows the Straight Black Pride Movement hosting an event. A freelance writer/journalist arrived and was confronted, being taken as a Black Lives Matter advocate. From here, writer Arielle Gray took her thoughts to AfroPunk to write about her experience… O Salih Rowe, President of the Boston Chapter of SBP, tells us his.